Letters to and from Kinnick, a student leader, scholar, athlete, and naval officer from Iowa. This correspondence is chiefly letters from Nile Kinnick to his parents during his military training at Quonset Point Naval Air Station (R.I.).
“Two Fellows from Hedrick” Dean Harwood and Roger Perkins headed Class C schools in freshman scholarship. -- “From Small Beginnings” The curator of rare books discusses Lincolniana collecting and Bollinger. -- “Your Income Tax Goes Up”...
Letters from Kinnick, a student leader, scholar, athlete, and naval officer from Iowa to family and friends while he was serving in the U.S. as a Navy pilot, awaiting orders to be sent into combat.
Newspaper articles about Nile Kinnick's last football season at the University of Iowa, his subsequent football awards, his participation in the 1940 All Stars game, his Iowa speaking tours, and his enlistment and training in the U.S. Naval Air...